‘Unintelligible’? I Understood Him!

I just spent the last hour watching C-SPAN’s Q and A interview of Roger Ailes that I mentioned below. I also read the transcript, as I (if you haven’t noticed) do a bit of transcribing myself from time to time. I found this interesting. From the transcript:

LAMB: How can you tell when you’re making somebody crazy and they’re in your presence?

AILES: Well, they usually try to persuade me that I’m either wrong or nuts, and certainly a bad person for not agreeing with them. And generally, when you start a debate and they try to do that, you know you’re making them crazy.

LAMB: But what is it? I mean, go back to what we were talking about in the beginning. What is it that gets under their skin about this network?

AILES: Look, they suspect we like America. They suspect that we think…

LAMB: Do they really hate America?

AILES: No, they don’t hate it. They just — are constantly telling you what’s wrong. There’s never a good story about this country. We don’t — you know, the American people don’t hear that. We don’t — you know, we don’t promote something that isn’t true, but we will put it in context. I mean, 95 percent of our people are working. That doesn’t say we don’t have an unemployment problem, you know, in Ohio and Michigan and some of those places. It doesn’t mean that there isn’t outsourcing. It doesn’t mean — you have to cover those, but you have to put it in a context. (UNINTELLIGIBLE). You have to put it in a context of what we have. And that’s part of the news. Part of the news is all the facts. And we try to do that. That makes us a little different.

It wasn’t unintelligible. I understood him clearly.

He asked, “Do you want to live in Somalia?”

Good question.